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Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis stick with his job and well stick with ours
2015-06-13 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leading figures on the American right are launching a series of pre-emptive attacks on the pope before this weeks encyclical, hoping to prevent a mass conversion of the climate change deniers who have powered the corps of the conservative movement for more than a decade. The prospect that the pope, from his perch at the pinnacle of the Catholic church, will exhort humanity to act on climate change as a moral imperative is a direct threat to a core belief of US conservatives. And conservatives ...
Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set transform climate change debate
2015-06-13 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday. In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the pontiff is expected to argue that humanitys exploitation of the planets resources has crossed the Earths natural boundaries, and that the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The much-anticipated message, which will be...
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We Asked Climate Deniers What They Think of the Pope. Heres What They Said
2015-06-12 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Washington`s notorious snowball-thrower was at it again--even on a June day with forecast highs of 92 degrees--as the Senate`s most powerful environmental leader delivered a pep talk to activists who deny the science behind climate change. Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, who now chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee despite famously calling global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," took a star turn on Thursday at the Heartland Institute, whose...
Pope Francis climate encyclical could have mayor impact, says UN
2015-06-12 16:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN thinks that Pope Francis encyclical on the environment, set to be released next week, could have a major impact on climate change talks and negotiations ahead of a climate summit in December. The much anticipated encyclical, a letter set to bishops, is expected to argue that there is a moral duty to protect the environment and could spur many Catholics to take action on climate change. While some have welcomed the Popes involvement in the issue, others have criticised the move, stating...
U.N.: Pope encyclical may have 'major impact' on climate talks
2015-06-11 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany Pope Francis is likely to have a major impact in spurring U.N. negotiations on global warming with an encyclical on the environment next week, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Thursday. "Pope Francis is personally committed to this issue like no other pope before him," Christiana Figueres told a news conference at June 1-11 talks on a deal to combat climate change due to be agreed in Paris in December. The encyclical, a letter sent to bishops, due next Thursday would add a moral dimension...
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